Re: Long campaign questions
Actually, I debate that we would had never used the bomb against the Germans, True, there was the Dresden raizing raids, but I think only Britain, had they the bomb, would had seriously comtempleted that, if only for their taste for bombing populations exclussively, afterall, though they wouldn't had known it then, the bomb drops on Japan were far less damaging in casualties than many fire bomb raids (which I think includes the British fire bomb vareity, not just the B29 raids). Could the bomb do better in Germany? I don't know.
Remember also there was the time factor. Germany had to last about as long to get bombed, because I don't think the bomb, or at least two of them, were ready by 5/45. But the primary reason, was that we weren't as mad at Germany as we were with Japan. What's more, if you go by the "scare the USSR" theory by their use, you wouldn't go using them in Germany too, should you just have to use them in Japan; one nation was enough for a scare. What's more, drop some bombs on Germany, though they didn't know it then necessarily, amounts to exposing USSR occupiers to radiation. Reason for the USSR to declare war on the US? Probably more on the practical side though, how much would dropping these bombs hamper both the allied offensives? You have to remember, part of the charm of the bomb in Japan was that it avoided casualties and speeded the war where there wasn't a foothold already, with fanatical resistance expected otherwise.
No, given how Japan was in it, and the USSR was advancing on Germany too, there's no way you nuke Germany.
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